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	5 --[ Reducing my footprint, using a mini-pc
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	8 I recently turned off my main pc, a homegrown setup I had been upgrading
	9 over the years. It had quite a decent spec, AMD RX XT5700, Intel i7,
	10 32Gb RAM, 3xSSDs and a NVM drives. I have mentioned in previous TXT
	11 files I mainly use the command line apart from qutebrowser occasionally
	12 so it was complete overkill. Not to mention the energy prices in north
	13 Scotland being absurd, it was time to "downgrade".
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	16 I had a few options in mind, a good old Raspberry Pi, a 2nd hand
	17 Thinkcentre or an off the shelf mini-pc. As you obviously gathered,
	18 I went with the mini-pc, a beelink U59 [0]. The RPI are actually quite
	19 costly now, hard to get. I also wanted an x86 architecture for using
	20 Alpine Linux - my desktop distro of choice these days. Apparently the
	21 Thinkcentre can be quite loud too, so I ended up buying the U59 with the
	22 500Gb SSD, 16Gb Ram options for around £200 on Amazon.
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	25 I installed Alpine Linux with no issues at all. I have a bootstrap
	26 script for Alpine [1], so using this I was up and running with the foot
	27 terminal open on sway 15 minutes later. The U59 is completely quiet, and
	28 the max I have seen the temp get so far was 59C while playing Loom via
	29 ScummVM. I had to compile ScummVM from source which took around 20
	30 mintues, not bad at all. The power draw was sitting around 15 watts
	31 during this time.
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	34 Really happy with it so far, will be interesting to see how long this
	35 machine lasts for.
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	38 0. https://www.bee-link.com/catalog/product/index?id=334
	39 1. gopher://jay.scot/1/git/alpine-bootstrap/
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	41 .EOF